International Paint LLC, an AkzoNobel company and one of the world’s leading providers of high-performance protective coatings, linings and fire protection products, has promoted Brad Berkmeyer to protective coatings technical manager, North Am…

Aakash Chemicals has appointed Duke Thompson vice president, sales, North America. Thompson has served the chemical industry for the past 21 years and the last 10 years in the area of pigments. He joins Aakash as a thought leader that will assi…

Dow Coating Materials has named Jose Maria Bermudez the new general manager for North America. In this role, Bermudez will lead all aspects of Dow Coating Materials’ business in North America, including sales, manufacturing and engineering, tec…

AFG FlameGuard Ltd. (AFG), a technology focused company that provides products and services to the fire suppression and prevention industry, has appointed Thomas Bell as president and CEO. Mr. Bell has served as a director of AFG since October 12, 20…

Engineered Resin Solutions (ERS) of Chester, Pa., has added two executives to the ERS team following a recent distribution agreement with ErgonArmor.
Chris Lehman has been named technical sales manager bringing nearly 20 years of technical sales and…

Christine Gehres has joined Sudarshan's pigment division as the new vice president of global marketing and strategy. She will lead the pigment division's global marketing initiative and provide strategic direction in all aspects of the pigmen…

MetoKote Corporation has promoted Jeffrey Oravitz to president and CEO. Oravitz replaces former president and chief executive DeWayne Pinkstaff. The company also appointed Robert Lee to executive chairman of the board.
Oravitz joined the company in…

CVC Thermoset Specialties, an Emerald Performance Materials Company, has appointed Ken Tse as technical sales engineer for Asia Pacific. In this new position for the company, Tse is based in the company’s Hong Kong office and will provide custo…

Scott Copeland has joined RPM International Inc. as director-corporate development. His work will be focused on RPM’s acquisition program.
Prior to joining RPM, Copeland was director, transaction services with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC).…

Halox, a division of ICL Performance Products LP, announced David Tarjan, former chemist with Sherwin-Williams’ protective and marine coatings business, has been appointed project chemist at Halox.
Tarjan’s experience encompasses five ye…

International Paint LLC, an AkzoNobel company and one of the world’s leading providers of high-performance protective coatings, linings and fire protection products, has named Neil Plowman as the company’s new marine and protective coatin…

Micro Powders, Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance micronized wax additives, has recently promoted David Gittleman to director of business development. In addition to identifying the needs of the current product line Gittleman will be responsibl…

Bayer MaterialScience LLC has appointed Marc Daniel Block director, regional key account sales for its coatings, adhesives, specialties (CAS) business unit.
In this role, Block leads the CAS regional key account sales team in the United States. He a…

Emerald Kalama Chemical, a division of Emerald Performance Materials, has appointed Golnar Motahari Pour as K-Flex product line manager for Europe. Middle East and Africa. Pour fills a new position at the division European headquarters in Geleen, The…

Dur-A-Flex has named David Hughes vice president of marketing, research and development. Hughes is a former business director of BASF Corporation and a business line vice president for Ciba Specialty Chemicals.
In his new role, Hughes will direct re…